"The person who makes that statement most witheringly is [Arpad] 'Arki' Busson. He reminds me of a B-level villain in a Bond film. It's a part Robert Davi would play if you couldn't get Alan Rickman with a cat in his lap. He's a pockmarked toady who hops from yacht to yacht and bed to bed. So when some bloated little toad like Busson labels me a certain way, I say to myself, 'Consider the source.' If movie stardom meant being trapped on a yacht with Busson, I'd rather be a weatherman for Channel 4 in New York."

Catfight!

Baldwin, who's launching an MSNBC talk show this month and recently appeared in Woody Allen's "Blue Jasmine," isn't fond of film studio execs, either.

"These are people who know nothing about what makes a movie," Baldwin says. "I'm not blaming them — they only have what they have. They're all factotums of multi-lateral corporations. It's all money, money, money."

But there is at least one person in Hollywood who Baldwin respects: Steven Spielberg.

"He owns his own f---ing studio," Baldwin says of the Dreamworks honcho. "He doesn't have to go to one of the douchebags from Warner Bros. and explain to them why his movie is marketable."